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Go back to latest announcementsWelcoming Dr. Gan Xiao
Dated: July 1, 2024
Dr. Gan Xiao has joined CCL as a postdoctoral researcher. He brings in his expertise in combustion modeling and kinetics reduction to our group.
Our collaborative work on atomistic exploration of soot is now published
Dated: July 1, 2024
We have published two papers based on our ongoing collaboration on unravelling the mysteries of soot with Dr. Eirini Goudeli's group and Dr. Georgios Kelesidis. In the first paper (published in JPC-A; preprint) we investigated the internal structure of incipient soot at an atomic level and in the second paper (published in Fuel; preprint) we presented detailed calculations of and correlations between various physical and chemical properties of soot.
Evan and Tim wins the WSGC fellowship
Dated: June 1, 2024
Evan Gventer and Tim Day have won WSGC fellowship for summer research! Evan started his Ph.D. on molecular exploration of soot in Spring of 2023. Tim has been an undergraduate researcher in CCL since summer of 2023, and now he is continuing his research as a masters student. Congratulations, Evan and Tim!
How much did air pollution change in Milwaukee during COVID lockdowns?
Dated: March 6, 2023
COVID-19 lockdowns impacted the quality of air in Milwaukee. We have now published our measurements on this(Impact of traffic on air pollution in a mid-sized urban city during COVID-19 lockdowns). This work was a part of our collaboration with Dr. Walter McDonald's group and with Drs. Patrick McNamara and Maggie McNamara.
Tomás Saraceno: Entangled AirDated: January 5, 2023 CCL is co-organizing an exhibition featuring celebrated contemporary artist Tomás Saraceno. The exhibition will showcase research by CCL in exploring the physics of soot and its impact on our world. The exhibition will run from January 20 to May 21, 2023. Learn more about it here. |
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Our paper is accepted in JQSRT
Dated: December 5, 2022
Our paper Comparison of Spherical Harmonics Method and Discrete Ordinates Method for Radiative Transfer in a Turbulent Jet Flame is now accepted in the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. This paper is a product of an active collaboration with Dr. Ge at Oak Ridge National Lab. You can find more about it here.
The Secrets of Soot
Dated: Sep 16, 2022
Our research is on the spotlight in this article published in Marquette Today: The Secrets of Soot. Read the article here.
MAFIA-MD is accepted in Computer Physics Communications
Dated: February 16, 2022
Our analysis tool Molecular arrangement and fringe identification and analysis from molecular dynamics (MAFIA-MD) is now accepted as a peer-reviewed software in Computer Physics Communications. This software can batch-analyze a seriese of structural and chemical features from reactive molecular dyanmics simulation. You can find more about it here.
CCL recieves NSF CAREER grant
Dated: January 26, 2022
CCL recieves the prestigious NSF CAREER grant titled, "CAREER: A scalable multiscale modeling framework to explore soot formation in reacting flows".
This project will include a series of modeling techniques includnig molecular dynamics, machine learning, and computational fluid dynamics to develop efficient and accurate soot models for combustion systems.
UG Research oppritunities available (closed)
Dated: January 16, 2022
A funded research opprtunity is available for interested students to do paid summer research on "Hardware, Embedded Software, and Analytics for Environment Quality Monitoring". The application deadline is February 15, 2022. See here for more details.
Ms. Onwuzurike defended her M.S. thesis
Dated: July 16, 2021
Ms. Otito Onwuzurike successfully defended her M.S. thesis titled "Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling of Pollutants in Milwaukee Using AERMOD". Congratulations!
In her M.S. work, Ms. Onwuzurike used the AERMOD (an industry standard in regulatory monitoring of aerial pollutant dispersion) to model dispersion from complex sources such as traffic and a waste water reclamation facility. She also created a model to calculate background pollution level based on traffic metrics.
Mr. Mukut's co-authored paper on soot coalescence is accepted in Carbon
Dated: April 19, 2021
Mr. Mukut's co-authored paper "The coalescence of incipient soot clusters" has been accepted in Carbon (Impact Factor: 8.8). This work is part of a collaboration between Dr. Eirini Goudeli of University of Melbourne and CCL. In this paper, the physics and chemistry of soot coalescence has been explored - for the first time - using molecualr dynamics simulations. (Links: Carbon / Accepted manuscript)
Ms. David defended her M.S. thesis
Dated: March 31, 2021
Ms. Chloe David successfully defended her M.S. thesis titled "Accuracy and Computational Cost Assessment of Radiation Solvers for Combustion Simulations". Congratulations!
In her M.S. work, Ms. David compared spherical harmonics, discrete ordinate and Monte Carlo-based solvers for a combustion simualtion. She also performed a deatiled computational cost assessment of a Monte Carlo-based radiation sovler.
Mr. Tauer defended his M.S. thesis
Dated: March 30, 2021
Mr. Alec Tauer successfully defended his M.S. thesis titled "CFD Modeling of Aerial Dispersion of Pollutants in Urban Environments". Congratulations!
In his M.S. work, Mr. Tauer developed a new method to accurately capture variations in wind speed and direction that will lead to more accurate aerial dispersion modeling of pollutants.
Dr. Roy recieved a grant on engineering education
Dated: March 16, 2021
Dr. Roy, in collaboration with Dr. Amber Young-Brice from College of Nursing and Ms. Jenna Lassila from Engineering Success Center, recieved a grant to conduct a community of practice to explore ways to improve engineering education by employing strategies based on grit and self-regulation. See more about this project.
Ms. David's paper on radiation modeling is accepted in SHTC
Dated: February 19, 2021
Ms. David's co-authored paper "Comparison of Radiation Models for a Turbulent Piloted Methane/Air Jet Flame: A Frozen-Field Study" has been accepted for presentation in the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Coference (SHTC). This work is part of a collaboration between Dr. Wenjun Ge of Oak Ridge National Lab and CCL. In this paper, various radiation solvers are compared for their accuracy and computational cost.
Ms. Tasnim defended her M.S. thesis
Dated: July 07, 2020
Ms. Tamanna Tasnim successfully defended her M.S. thesis titled "A Parametric Study of Cohesive Zone Modeling Applied to Interfaces Under High Impact Velocity Collisions". Congratulations!
Mr. Mukut's paper is featured on CTM coverA figure from Mr. Mukut's paper on Spray-A has has been featured on the cover of Combustion Theory and Modelling, vol. 24(3). This paper presents a detailed study on the effect of multphase radiation and exhaust gas recirculation in soot and NOx formation in high-pressure engine-relevant conditions. (Links: CTM / Researchgate) |
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Mr. John Mika, Mr. Jason Moens, and Mr. Ulises Navarez starts UG research
Dated: May 15, 2020
Mr. Tauer, Mr. Moens, and Mr. Navarez will work on software development for radiation modeling in collaboration with Dr. Richard Povinelli. Find out more about them here.
Mr. Tauer and Ms. David starts their graduate degree
Dated: May 15, 2020
Mr. Alec Tauer and Ms. Chloe David have officially started their graduate research at CCL. Alec and Chloe have been undergraduate researcher in the lab since last year. Their graduate research will be continuation of their UG research. Find out more about them here.
Paper accepted in CAEE
Dated: January 16, 2020
A multi-instructor collaborative research on engineering education has been accepted in Computer Application in Engineering Education. This work explores the use of online discussion in engineering education. (Links: CAEE / Researchgate)
Welcome to Mr. Ramos Coelho
Dated: March 02, 2020
Mr. Felipe Ramos Coelho has joined the Computational Combustion Lab as a visiting scholar. Mr. Ramos Coelho is a Ph.D. student from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. He will be working on efficient spectral models for Monte Carlo methods. Find out more about him here.
Welcome to Ms. Ashley Sanchez and Ms. Sierra Thomas
Dated: February 20, 2020
Ms. Ashley Sanchez (Major: Spanish and Biology) and Ms. Sierra Thomas (Major: Computer Science) have joined the Computational Combustion Lab this spring. Ms. Sanchez will be working with CCL and Haggerty Museum of Arts in developing novel ideas to communicate different aspects of environmental science to the general public. Ms. Thomas will be working on different aspects of high-performance computing related to radiation solvers. Find out more about them here.
Paper accepted in CTM
Dated: January 16, 2020
Mr. Mukut's paper on Spray-A has been accepted in Combustion Theory and Modelling. This paper presents a detaield study on the effect of multphase radiation and exhaust gas recirculation in soot and NOx formation in high-pressure engine-relevant conditions. (Links: CTM / Researchgate)
Paper accepted in Combustion and Flame
Dated: December 23, 2019
A collborative paper of detailed soot and radiation modeling in a small pool fire has been accepted in Combustion and Flame. This is one of the first ever study to include detailed radiation model, along with detailed chemistry and semi-empirical soot model in pool fires. This study shows the importance of detailed nongray radiation modeling in pool fires. (Links: ScienceDirect / Researchgate)
Paper accepted in JQSRT
Dated: Novemeber 13, 2019
Mr. Joey Farmer's paper on quasi-Monte Carlo method has been accepted in Journal of Qunatitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. This paper presents a detaield validation of QMC in radiative transfer calculation in combustion. QMC improves comptuational efficiency by orders of magnitude compared to conventional Monte Carlo methods. (Links: ScienceDirect / Researchgate)
Welcome to Ms. Chloe David and Ms. Chaimaa Maghfour
Dated: August 26, 2019
Ms. Chloe David and Ms. Chaimaa Maghfour are joining the Computational Combustion Lab this fall. Both of them will be working on different aspects of high-performance computating related to combustion solvers. Find out more about them here.
Welcome to Ms. Tito Onwuzurike
Dated: Jul 15, 2019
Ms. Tito Onwuzurike is joining the Computational Combustion Lab this fall. She is coming to Marquette from St. Mary's University, San Antonio. She will be working on aerial dispersion of pollutants. Find out more about her here.
Mr. Mukut defended his M.S. thesis
Dated: June 26, 2019
Mr. Khaled Mosharraf Mukut successfully defended his M.S. thesis titled "Effect of Radiation and EGR on Pollutant Formation in High-Pressure Constant Volume Spray Combustion." Congratulations! He will continue as a doctoral student working on soot modeling in CCL.
Expansion of the Pangea cluster
Dated: June 16, 2019
The inhouse Pangea cluster has added 144 more cores. This expansion was possible in collaboration with Prof. John Moore. More details about Pangea cluster can be found here.
Mr. Farmer presents in RAD-19
Dated: June 03, 2019
Mr. Farmer presents his paper on validation and verification of quasi-Monte Carlo solver in The 9th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, RAD-19, in Athens, Greece. His talk prompted discussion on how the QMC method can be utilized more in thermal radiation. RAD symposiums bring together radiation researchers from all over the world every three years.
Mr. Farmer presents in 4th TFECDated: April 16, 2019 Mr. Farmer presents his paper on "An Efficient Monte Carlo-based Solver for Thermal Radiation in Participating Media" is accepted in the 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference. His talk was well-received. The audience was curious about parallel performance of this solver, which is a planned future task for this project. The conference is organized by American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) and was held in Las Vegas, NV from April 14 to 17, 2019. |
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CCL wins new collaborative grant on air quality
Dated: Apr 15, 2019
A SEED grant has been awarded to CCL to perform exploratory studies in air quality modeling and monitoring. This grant is a collaboration with Dr. Walter McDonald and Dr. Patrick McNamara from Civil and Environmental Engineering at Marquette. The title of the grant is "Tracking Airborne Pollutant from Urban Transportation and Wastewater Infrastructure to Protect Public Health."
Mr. Farmer defended his M.S. thesis
Dated: Apr 04, 2019
Mr. Joseph Farmer successfully defended his M.S. thesis titled "Development of a Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Thermal Radiation in Participating Media." Congratulations!
Mr. Alec Tauer to join CCL as an undergraduate research fellow
Dated: Apr 01, 2019
Mr. Alec Tauer is joining CCL as an undergraduate research fellow. He will work on a project titled "Modeling Aerial Dispersion of Combustion-Generated Pollutants in an Urban Landscape."
Mr. Mukut presents in National Combustion Meeting
Dated: Mar 26, 2019
Mr. Mukut presents a talk on how soot statistics changes due to exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in a high-pressure spray combustion configuration in the 11th US National Combustion Meeting.
Mr. Farmer's paper is accepted in RAD-19
Dated: Mar 15, 2019
Mr. Farmer's paper on "A Photon Monte Carlo Solver Utilizing a Low Discrepancy Sequence for Thermal Radiation in Combustion Systems" is accepted in the The 9th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, RAD-19, in Athens, Greece. In this work he presented rigorous validation and performance evaluation of a quasi-Monte Carlo method. The conference organized by the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) is the premier conference on thermal radiation transfer.
CIMCO Marine AB establishes an internship program
Dated: Jan 15, 2019
A leading marine outboard Diesel engine manufacturer Cimco Marine AB, Sweden has established an Engineering R&D program in Marquette. Dr. Roy is part of the team coordinating the project from Marquette's side.
Mr. Farmer's paper is accepted in 4th TFEC
Dated: Dec 15, 2018
Mr. Farmer's paper on "An Efficient Monte Carlo-based Solver for Thermal Radiation in Participating Media" is accepted in the 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference. He proposed a novel method for Monte Carlo method leading to almost an order of magnitude increase in computational efficiency. The conference is organized by American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) and will be held in Las Vegas, NV from April 14 to 17, 2019.
New publication in Combustion and Flame
Dated: Dec 11, 2018
A paper investigating impact of radiation and turbulence-radiation interaction (TRI) in a heavy-duty diesel engine from a collaborative research involving Dr. Roy has been published in Combustion and Flame. This work also proposes an efficient spectral model for nongray radiation.
A detailed modeling study of radiative heat transfer in a heavy-duty diesel engine.
C. Paul, S. Ferreyro Fernandez, A. Sircar, D. C. Haworth, S. Roy, M. F. Modest
Combustion and Flame. 200 (2019) 325-341.
CCL participates in a collaborative project
Dated: Sep 30, 2018
CCL is now part of a large collaborative grant awarded by Airforce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) titled "Connecting Experiments and Simulations while Designing Functionality into the Dynamic Behavior of Surrogate" (PI: Dr. John Borg). This project involves mesoscale modeling of energetics in high-energy impacts.
CCL in International Aerosol Conference 2018Dated: Sep 06, 2018 Mr. Mukut presents a poster on soot modeling from high-pressure spray combustion in International Aerosol Conference 2018 in St. Louis, MO. The International Aerosol Conference (IAC) is held every four years by an aerosol association on behalf of the International Aerosol Research Assembly (IARA). Mr. Mukut's work showed effect of radiation and EGR on soot and NO formation in Spray-A cases of Engine Combustion Network (ECN). |
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Welcome to Ms. Tamanna Tasnim
Dated: Aug 02, 2018
Ms. Tamanna Tasnim is joining the Computational Combustion Lab this fall. She is coming to Marquette from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Find out more about her here.
Mr. K. M. Mukut presents at the Spring Technical MeetingDated: May 21, 2018 Mr. Mukut presented his work titled "A Sensitivity Study on Soot and NOx Formation in High Pressure Combustion System" at the Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This meeting was organized by University of Minnesota in collaboration with American Flame Research Committee. Mr. Mukut's work showed significant effect of radiation on soot and NO formation in Spray-A and Spray-H cases of Engine Combustion Network (ECN). |
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Mr. K. M. Mukut wins best poster awardDated: April 20, 2018 Congratulations to Mr. Mukut for winning the best poster award at the annual graduate poster exhibition at the department. His poster was titled "Detailed Modeling of Soot Formation and Morphology in a Combustion System using Monte Carlo Simulation." This is an annual poster competition, where more than 40 graduate students participate. |
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Internal grant (Michael J Wallace Award) awarded
Dated: April 13, 2018
Dr. Roy and Dr. Fleischmann were awarded Michael J Wallace Faculty Development Award from Opus College of Engineering for fundamental atomistic exploration of soot formation in combustion system.
External grant (NSF) awarded
Dated: Feb 9, 2018
A grant titled "Novel techniques for improving convergence and scalability of a Monte Carlo radiation solver for large-scale combustion simulations" has been awarded to Dr. Roy. The proposed research aims to develop portable, high-efficiency radiation solver suitable for massively-parallel combustion simulations in HPC environments. This grant is sponsored by Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure division of CISE directorate in NSF.
Internal grant awarded
Dated: Jan 9, 2018
An internal Regular Research Grant to study pollutant emission in internal combustion engine has been awarded to Dr. Roy for the calendar year 2018.
New publication in Combustion and Flame
Dated: Jan 9, 2018
A paper on impact of radiation in high-pressure spray simulation from a collaborative research involving Dr. Roy has been published in Combustion and Flame.
This work uses radiation models developed by Dr. Roy to explore effects of soot, radiation, turbulent-chemistry-interaction, and turbulent-radiation interaction modling in a high-pressure n-Dodecane spray (ECN - Spray A) combustion.
Soot and spectral radiation modeling for high-pressure turbulent spray flames.
S. Ferreyro Fernandez, C. Paul, A. Sircar, A. Imren, D. C. Haworth, S. Roy, M. F. Modest
Combustion and Flame. 190 (2018) 402-415.
New publication in Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power
Dated: Dec 12, 2017
A paper on simulation of a high-pressure gas turbine with detailed radiation from a collaboration involving Dr. Roy has been published in Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power.
This work uses radiation models developed by Dr. Roy to explore impact of radiation in a high-pressure combustion chamber.
Monte Carlo simulation for radiative transfer in a high-pressure industrial gas turbine combustion chamber.
T. Ren, M. F. Modest, S. P. Roy
Journal of Gas Turbine and Power. 140 (2017) 051503.
Welcome to new graduate students
Dated: Aug 17, 2017
Mr. Siduzzaman Khan, Mr. Khaled Mosharraf Mukut, and Ms. Yuxing Zhang are joining the Computational Combustion Lab this fall. Mr. Khan will be working on a joint experimental/numerical project coadvised by Dr. Allen and Dr. Roy. Mr. Mukut and Ms. Zhang will be working on soot and radiation modeling in combustion.
Find out more about them here.
New startup allocation on XSEDE
Dated: Jul 17, 2017
The computational combustion lab has been awarded a startup allocation on the Comet HPC system from XSEDE. This allocation will be used for high-fidelity combustion simulations.
New publication in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Dated: Jul 13, 2017
A paper by Dr. Roy on development and application on multiphase radiation solver has been accepted in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
This work explores possible effects of multiphase radiation in Diesel egnine-like conditions. It also presents a parametric study of spectral properties and optical models for Diesel spray.
Development of a multiphase photon Monte Carlo method for spray combustion and its application in high-pressure conditions.
S. P. Roy, J. Cai, M. F. Modest.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 115PA (2017) 453 - 466.
Welcome to Mr. Joseph Farmer, Undergraduate Research Fellow
Dated: May 1, 2017
Mr. Joseph Farmer will be joining the lab as an Undergraduate Research Fellow for Summer 2017. He will be working on benchmarking of a radiation solver using the inhouse HPC cluster.
Find out more about him here.
Inhouse HPC cluster is operational now
Dated: Feb 16, 2017
Finally the inhouse cluster is in place (in collaboration with Dr. Jonathan Fleischmann).
Here are the specifications for the cluster.
- Head node: 2 × E5-2623v4 (4C, 2.6 GHz), 32GB DDR4 2400 MHz per node, 4TB storage
- Compute nodes: 8 × E5-2687Wv4 (12C, 3.0 GHz), 128GB DDR4 2400 MHz per node
- GPU nodes: 3 × Nvidia Tesla K80 24GB GDDR5
- Interconnect: 56GB/s Infiniband FDR
- Additional nodes: 2 × E5-2687Wv3 (10C, 3.1 GHz), 128GB DDR4 2133MHz per node, 2TB storage
Undergraduate research postion available
Dated: Jan 17, 2017
An undergraduate research position is available for immediate start.
Position has been filled.
Feb 02, 2017
Fulltime graduate research opportunities available
Dated: Jan 17, 2017
There are several fulltime graduate research opportunities available for Fall 2017.
As of summer 2017, assistantship positions have been filled. But if you are interested, feel free to contact me for any future opportunities.
Presentation on improved radiation solver
Dated: Dec 08, 2016
A talk titled "Improvements to Photon Monte Carlo Radiation Solver for Combustion Simulations" by Somesh Roy has been accepted for presentation at the Sixteenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion (NC17), being held April, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA, organized by SIAM. The abstract can be viewed here.
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